Google seeks dismissal of a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging that it violates users’ privacy and property rights by data scraping to train its artificial intelligence (AI) models.
Google filed the motion on October 17 in a California District Court, arguing that it must use public data to educate its AI chatbots like Bard. It claimed that the allegations that it is “stealing” publicly available information from the internet are founded on false premises.
“Using publicly available information to learn is not stealing. Nor is it an invasion of privacy, conversion, negligence, unfair competition, or copyright infringement.”
Google stated that such a lawsuit would “blow up not only Google’s services but also the concept of generative AI.”
In July, eight individuals claiming to represent “millions of class members,” including internet users and copyright holders, filed a lawsuit against Google.
They assert that a change to Google’s privacy policy violated their privacy and property rights a week before the lawsuit was filed that permits data harvesting for AI training.
Google argued that the complaint relates to “irrelevant conduct by third parties and doomsday predictions about AI.”
It stated that the complaint failed to address fundamental issues, including how using their information injured the plaintiffs.
This is one of numerous cases launched against tech giants developing and training AI systems. On September 20, Meta refuted claims that its AI training violated intellectual property rights.
